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Catch The Wind is the extraordinary adventure of two young boys who venture into the heartland of gator country in the Mississippi swamplands. Their exciting and perilous journey by raft down the mighty Mississippi River leaves you with only one thought: What will they do next?

My book is about daughter/mother relationships, some happy ones, some sad ones. All empowering! Some daughters kept their traditions alive, while others made new ones! You may read some stories that you may relate to. All are meant to empower and inspire you in some way! Friends commented on my relationship with my mother and asked if we had always had a close relationship. Actually, it was not until after I married that Mom and I became closer. Mom made sure I knew she was not my friend, nor did she want to be! Mom was my mother and I was her daughter. After having shared this bit of information with my friends, they, in turn, shared their stories with me! My friends and women who contributed their stories and my mom, my muse, inspired my story, and book.

Parody Paradise, Part II is a compilation of thirty-one rewritten satirical short stories and plays from famous authors, featuring adult language and situations. Author Jay Dubya equally sideswipes (parity/parody) popular and classic stories authored by Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other author's works that are lambasted and thoroughly corrupted are James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, H.G Wells, and also several William Shakespeare plays are also brutalized and lampooned. Parody Paradise, Part II is Jay Dubya's 65th published hardcover/paperback book. Besides Adult Satire, the author writes in seven other separate genres: Action/Adventure Novels, Non-Fiction Books, Mythology, Science-Fiction, Detective Stories, Paranormal Short Stories, and Young Adult Fantasy Novels.

San Francisco has always been a magnet. From Gold Seekers to Flower Children to Tech Wizards, The City has attracted dreamers and doers. Less well known in The City's colorful history: How San Francisco began as a colony of religious pilgrims. How the first newspaper transformed sleepy Yerba Buena into San Francisco and then launched the Gold Rush. How the publisher of that newspaper became the dominant historical figure of his time, only to be downplayed or purposely ignored later by many historians. Like a Greek tragedy set in Gold Rush California, THE STAR, THE SAINT AND THE CITY is the true story of publisher Samuel Brannan, who amassed California's first great fortune. He became early San Francisco's most influential and flamboyant figure after trading his Mormon faith for his belief in the future of California, only to lose his fortune and die in obscurity.Author William Briggs is an Emeritus California State University Dean of Communications and author of two previous volumes of California history, BADASS LAWMAN and THAT PIRATE, BOUCHARD. He lives in Morgan Hill, CA.

Frank Barry is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Boston Harbor Campus. He has held teaching credentials in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and California. He credits his seminary education for being chosen as a linguist in the United States Air Force (Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Hebrew Languages). He has retired from teaching high school English and English as a Second Language and Workplace English instructor in companies throughout Southern California. He volunteers his time with the Kiwanis Clubs of Greater Anaheim and Greater Westminster and advises Key Clubs - the high school service organization of Kiwanis. He is current secretary of VVA Chapter 1024 in Orange, CA and part of the Huey helicopter crew that travels with the helicopter throughout Southern California raising funds for all veterans. He is secretary of the Westminster Community Foundation. He is advisor to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum. His previous four books (The Seeds Quartet) are all related the lessons he learned during four major acts of his life: The Seminary Seeds, The Military Seeds, The Education Seeds, and The Service Seeds.

This small volume, written by David B. Bowman, her companion of 62 years, is presented as a tribute to Maria Dianne Bowman. Surely, too, it is an expression of the love shared and a cry in the night that she is no longer alongside. Through the years family and friends came to know her through one or another window. These pages open various apertures on her life and activity, and will offer new vistas for nearly every reader. May these brief chapters and a dozen photographs enable family, friends and others to further recognize Dianne's continuing presence and deepen appreciation for the faith in God and love toward others she embodied and expressed throughout her life. David Bowman is the author of two autobiographical books: Saints Along the Way: Women and Men Who Have Influenced Me (Bookstand Publishing, 2015), and Parish, the Thought: A Memoir in Ministry (Wipf and Stock, 2018). He also wrote a study in theology and literature: Faith Rising - Between the Lines: Intimations of Faith Embedded in Modern Fiction (Wipf and Stock, 2021). He holds a Ph.D. from Glasgow University, Scotland. With Dianne at his side, he devoted his adult life to parish ministry.

For many years, a Christmas tradition in my family was to get comfortable in front of the TV set during the Christmas Season, and watch the various screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' wonderful literary masterpiece, "A Christmas Carol," a timeless story I came to love and cherish.One result of my love for "A Christmas Carol" was that in 1979 I decided I wanted to pay tribute to the story by writing my own version. At that time, I was a big fan of gymnastics, and thought it would be a novel approach to write a gymnastics-themed version. Towards the end of the year, I wrote my story, which was published as "A Gymnastic Christmas Carol" in the November/December 1979 issue of "Gymnastics World" magazine, published by SundbySports Publications.Thirty years later, realizing that my Christmases Yet To Come are far fewer in number than my Christmases Past, I decided that this would be an appropriate time to resurrect my story, revise it a bit, and present it in the more enduring form of a book.It is my sincere hope that you enjoy reading this little story, my tribute to Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece and to Christmas, as much as I did writing it both in 1979 and 2009.

"FRISPECT" is a work of fiction based on real-life incidents. The backdrop is modern-day corporate America but the book is for anyone who loves to indulge in a bit of self-reflection, especially millennials in the workforce and their parents. The story underscores and celebrates the power of harmony - the power that transforms friction into mutual respect engendering the qualities of value-creation, introspection, compassion, and forgiveness to make us better and happier individuals.

SHUFFLEBOARD, WHY NOT? is written for beginning Shuffleboard players who want to improve their game to the best of their individual abilities. Shuffleboard is 85% strategy and 15% physical skill. Exercise counts, and with Shuffleboard you can achieve mental growth, physical activity, experience, social interaction, new friends, and continued life. Play Shuffleboard and have FUN!

Please change the description of this book to read as follows: This is the continued sequence of Pearl¿s true life story as she advances through her life, physically and psychologically, amongst the shared captivity with her human and estranged feathered flock. Within the gradual and steady transformation of her newly reformed and increasingly feathered body, she provides her newly adopted family an education about a promising, peaceful existence with the other parrot and animal species.Her trust and kinship grows exponentially on a daily basis as we allow this treasured and respected exotic animal to expand our simple, human mentality by giving her the much appreciated freedom to be a contributing member of our complex, leadfoot-on-the-ground existence on this Earth that we share in an attempt for a peaceful union.